<p>To The Editor: Council members and the mayor for years have bypassed Seventh Avenue. </p><p>It's a fact: Seventh Avenue is as much a part of the city as Main Street. </p><p>We pay the same tax rate as any business. While council is spending hundreds of thousand of dollars to beautify Main, we're lucky to have the street sweeper come down Seventh Avenue. </p><p>Some of those tax dollars would have gone a long way in helping upgrade Seventh Avenue. How how about some planters and a few things to beautify Seventh Avenue? </p><p>I've seen city workers sweeping trash and cigarette butts on Main. Heaven forbid, not on Seventh. </p><p>In the summer, city workers weed-eat and mow where Four Seasons and Grove Street meet to make it look good for tourists. </p><p>Then they load up and leave. Weeds are pushing through the curbs and sidewalks down here, but so-called city officals turn their backs on us. It has to stop. </p><p>We could use a few hundred thousand dollars of the tax money that's been wasted on Main Street. </p><p>It's time for a change. Recognize Seventh Avenue as a part of the city, not something that you turn your backs on and hope it'll go away. </p><p>Melvin Clayton</p><p>Hendersonville</p>